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Similarly, a 2018 survey revealed that 83,945 families in the state did not have toilet facilities. In a statement, Langar said that 430 families without the facility of toilets in these 132 gram panchayats were either left out in the baseline survey of 2012 or increased due to population increase and division of families. These may have been left out in the 2012 baseline survey or increased after the survey, Langar said.To include these families in the scheme, an extra budgetary resources of Rs 100 crore has been sought from the central government by the state government. Dehradun: A day after a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) tabled in the state assembly said that the declaration made by the Uttarakhand government that the state’s rural areas were Open Defecation Free (ODF) was incorrect, additional secretary and director, Namami Gange, Raghav Langar said that 132 gram panchayats on the banks of Ganga were declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) between August 2015 till December 2016 on the basis of the targets set out in a baseline survey in 2012..